Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 23% to $19.34 Billion
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2014. — Operating cash flow increased 18% to $5.33 billion for the trailing twelve months, comp...
Exclusive: Samsung Gear VR setup walkthrough, First look at Gear VR Manager
A few weeks ago, we exclusively confirmed the existence of Samsung's upcoming virtual reality headset, the Gear VR, and revealed some new information about it and posted a render of the actual device.
Security firm finds de-anonymizing zero-day vulnerability in Tails OS popularized by Snowden
Silver Bullets and Fairy Tails — Introduction — This week we made mention on Twitter of a zero-day vulnerability we've unearthed that affects the popular Tails operating system.
HP Makes $50 Million Strategic Investment in Hortonworks
To the steadily growing list of big companies making strategic investments in the open source big data platform known as Hadoop, you can now add computing giant Hewlett-Packard. — Re/code has learne...
Facebook and Uber Discuss Integration of Car Service Into Messenger
Mark Zuckerberg must be looking to Asia for inspiration for the kind of platform Facebook Messenger could become. — Here's one idea: An integration with popular car-hailing service Uber that would b...
Joshua Topolsky, editor in chief of The Verge, joins Bloomberg as editor of a series of new online ventures, will be replaced by Nilay Patel
Josh Topolsky of The Verge Is Joining Bloomberg — Josh Topolsky, the co-founder of the technology website The Verge, will join Bloomberg …
LG Shipped 14.5 Million Smartphones in Q2, up 20 Percent, As Phone Business Turned a Profit
Korea's LG Electronics said on Wednesday that its mobile unit turned profitable in the second quarter as the company shipped a record 14.5 million smartphones, up 20 percent year-over-year.
Zillow seeking to acquire Trulia for up to $2 billion, combining the two most-visited US real estate sites
Zillow Said to Be Seeking to Buy Rival Real-Estate Site Trulia — Zillow Inc. is seeking to acquire rival Trulia Inc., people with knowledge of the matter said …
Google X project to collect anonymous genetic and molecular info from thousands to aid in detecting diseases earlier
Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human — Baseline Study to Try to Create Picture From the Project's Findings — Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious …
Chromecast has been used 400M times to ‘cast’ sessions to TVs since it launched a year ago
Chromecast turns one: why this small streaming stick became such a big deal — A year after launch, Chromecast streaming sticks have been used 400 million times to cast media to TVs.
Google's $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed — joins YouTube for new video empire
joins YouTube for new video empire — Google has reached a deal to buy game livestreaming firm Twitch for $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. — Citing unnamed sources, Variety...
Instagram's “Bolt” Leak Could Be A New Facebook App Or An App Install Ad Test
Some Instagram users are reporting having briefly seen a banner advertisement within the Instagram application which pointed to a new app called “Bolt,” described as a “one tap photo messaging” app.
Sony agrees to $15M settlement in 2011 data breach class action
Sony today agreed to a $15 million preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit over its 2011 data breach, which led to the theft of names, addresses and possibly credit card data belonging to 77 ...
How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in the Clouds of Amazon and Others
Hackers have long used malware to enslave armies of unwitting PCs, but security researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar had a different thought: Why steal computing resources from innocent victims whe...
Google Voice offers web-based calls through Hangouts, no G+ profile needed
The rumor is that eventually we're going to see Google Voice merged completely into Hangouts, and that's getting even closer to becoming reality. You can now make phone calls via Hangouts directly fr...
Microsoft moves Yammer under Office 365; Co-founder David Sacks is out
Summary: Microsoft is fine-tuning further its Office businesses and is moving Yammer under Office 365. Yammer Co-founder David Sacks is leaving Microsoft. — Ever since Microsoft bought enterprise s...
Amazon Fire Phone Teardown
Amazon has finally released its flagship phone, and we're ready. It's teardown time. We're going to burn this place to the ground with Amazon's new Fire Phone. Step 1 — Amazon Fire Phone Teardown B...
Digital Whiteboard Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
For the second time, Fog Creek Software Inc. has spun out a company—Trello Inc., an internal project management tool that became so popular, according to the founders, it needed to exist on its own.
President Barack Obama to issue executive order on drone privacy
President Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order to develop privacy guidelines for commercial drones operating in U.S. airspace, POLITICO has learned. — The order would put the National Tele...
Google Maps challenges Foursquare with new Explore feature on Android and iOS
Google announced today the addition of an Explore Nearby button for Google Maps on iOS and Android. The featuring is rolling out “starting this week.” — The new feature expands the Google Maps as m...
Hotel Wi-Fi Test ranks hotels by expected Wi-Fi speeds from crowdsourced data
Need A Hotel With Fast Wi-Fi? This Site Has You Covered — Hotel Wi-Fi connections can be a big black mystery box. There are those without Wi-Fi, those that charge you extra for it …
Pandora Q2 Tops Estimates Slightly With $218.9M In Revenue, But Its Stock Is Falling
Pandora came in barely ahead of analyst estimates in its just-released second quarter earnings report. — The streaming music company reported revenue of $218.9 million (up 38 percent on a non-GAAP b...
Duolingo launches Test Center, a $20 alternative to standardized language exams
Duolingo today launched Test Center, its own English language certification exam that can be taken on the Web or an Android device. — The fresh alternative to standardized language tests was first a...
European Central Bank suffers security breach, personal data stolen
Summary: The European Central Bank's website has been hacked and personal information has been stolen by a cybercriminal. — The European Central Bank (ECB) admitted Thursday that a security breach h...
Pinterest releases diversity report: global employees are 60% male, 50% Caucasian, 42% Asian
Diversity and Inclusion at Pinterest — Last October, I posed the question: “Where are the numbers?”. It was a call to action for the tech industry to share metrics on diversity in the workplace.
Seven arrests made in $1.6 million StubHub cyberfraud case
(Reuters) - Police have arrested seven people on charges they were tied to an international ring that defrauded eBay Inc's StubHub online ticketing service of some $1.6 million, the latest in a string...
Wikipedia blocks anonymous edits (and trolling) from a congressional IP address
A Wikipedia administrator has blocked anonymous edits from a congressional IP address for 10 days because of “disruptive” edits being made by someone located in the House of Representatives, a spokesm...
Apple releases OS X Yosemite Public Beta
Apple has started sending out OS X Yosemite builds for Beta Program, as announced yesterday. The build is being sent out to a million Beta Program members. Participants can get a redemption code fro...
Pirate Bay Launches Mobile Site, Teases More Expansions
One of The Pirate Bay's strengths has been its resilience. No matter how hard the movie and music industries try, the site remains operational. — Over the years the Pirate Bay site has undergone ma...
IFTTT's recipe-powered automation now works with Square mobile payments
Consumers have been automating apps with IFTTT (If This Then That) for awhile by, say, backing up Instagram photos to Dropbox whenever they snap a photo. Now, businesses will be able to take advantag...
The new $350 Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is now shipping
We were expecting to see the new iteration of the Oculus Rift arrive on developer's doorsteps earlier this month, but unfortunately it hit a couple of delays. Road to VR points out a Reddit thread wh...
Google switching Chrome to its homemade BoringSSL to make its browser safer
Google has exhausted a lot of resources patching up OpenSSL, so much in fact, the company has elected to create its own fork aptly named BoringSSL. Preparing to move the platform to Chrome …
Samsung Backs GamePop As BlueStacks Adds $13M In New Funding
Samsung's venture arm has contributed to a round of funding that adds $13 million to the total raised by BlueStacks, the virtualization startup that debuted its GamePop platform earlier this year to o...
FCC gets its chance to overturn state limits on broadband competition
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has been saying he'll use the agency's authority to overturn state laws that limit municipal broadband networks, and now he has a chance to make good on that promise.
Redfin settles stock dispute ‘peaceably’ with founder and former CTO, in run-up to possible IPO
A bitter stock dispute between Redfin and two of the company's earliest employees has ended in a settlement agreement, terms of which are not being disclosed.